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7141 Who wrote 'Hopes and wishes have a bad habit of living in the future but dying in the present?

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Bremer

(C) Bernard Shaw

(D) Wordsworth

7142 Who said, 'A diplomat is one who knows lady's birthday but not her age'?

(A) Bernard Shaw

(B) S. Radhakrishnan

(C) R.M. Masani

(D) Palkhiwala

7143 Who said, 'I am an idol breaker and not seller'?

(A) Ghazni Muhammed

(B) Chengizkhan

(C) Abu Hassan

(D) None of the above

7144 Who said, "Cowardice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire"?

(A) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

(B) Acharya Narendra Dev

(C) Jayaprakash Narayan

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

7145 Who said, 'History is past sociology and sociology is present History'?

(A) Von Bulor

(B) Trevelyan

(C) Plato

(D) Napoleon

7146 Who said, 'History is bunk'?

(A) Roosevelt

(B) Henry Ford

(C) Jawaharial Nehru

(D) Stalin

7147 Who said, 'The worse the man, the better the soldier'?

(A) Alexander

(B) Hitler

(C) Chengizkhan

(D) Napoleon

7148 Who said, “Man without society is either a beast or a God'?

(A) Plato

(B) Gandhi

(C) Henry Maine

(D) Aristotle

7149 " ... the world's last Shangri-La, nestled in the Himalayas, it is a jewel of environmental preservation. Its pristine forests, sparkling icy peaks and flora and fauna have caused the World Wildlife Fund to dub it as one of the ecological wonders of the world". The place referred to in this quotation is?

7158 "I do not want my house to be walled on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any of them." This quotation is attributed to?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Rabindrantth Tagore

(C) Swami Vivekananda

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

7159 "From Aceh in the far north-west to Torres Strait in the east is 5000 miles, almost as far as from London to Baghdad. The Archipelago has 14,000 islands, some mere equatorial rocks, others some of the largest in the world." This description best fits?

(A) West Indies

(B) Japan

(C) Philippines

(D) Indonesia

7160 "So long as women in India do not take equal part with men in the affairs of the world and in religious and political matters, we shall not see India's star rising." This was stated by?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) Saroijini Naidu

(C) Indira Gandhi

(D) Lal Bahadur Shastri

7161 Who among the following remarked that: "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"?

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) Aurobindo Ghosh

(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

7162 Who is referred to in the following statement? "Contrary to the existing notions, he suggested that the earth revolves around the sun and rotates on its axis"?

(A) Aryabhatta

(B) Brahmagupta

(C) Bhaskara

(D) None of the above

7163 Which of the following holy books has quoted "The way of knowledge is superior to the way of action'?

(A) Bible

(B) Bhagvad Gita

(C) Mahabharata

(D) Ramayana

7164 "By weaving threads of physics, chemistry and biology into a rich tapestry, this remarkable scientist provided a unifying molecular view of the world ....He touted the wonderful properties of Vitamin C first as a cure of common cold and later as a preventive agent against cancer." One of science's major figures of all time referred to above is?

(A) G.N. Lewis

(B) Linus Carl Pauling

(C) Fritz London

(D) Walter Heitler

7165 "Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend" was said by?

(A) Lincoln

(B) Nelson

(C) Churchill

(D) Mao Tse Tung

7166 "Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother...." Who had said these words?

(A) jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Vivekananda

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

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